What is the most obscure country from which you've met a person?
 

Don't count people you've met while traveling to obscure countries. What's the most unusual country from which you've met someone, while going about your normal business in the United States?

I was friends with a guy in college who was from The Gambia. Not just a Gambia, but THE Gambia. That's a small country.

The husband of a friend of mine is from Yemen, which is pretty unusual, and a client of mine once was from Bulgaria. I met someone once whose girlfriend was from the island of Truk, and I really wanted to meet her, but never got the chance.

I'd like to meet a Mongolian person at some point.

Colorado

FYP

Not sure, couldn't understand him.

I'm from Mongolia Rainman let's meet.

Did he make you a vegemite sandwich?

I rented out my house to a person I thought was a friend from The Gambia

Suffice to say you can take the man out of Africa but you can't take the Africa out of the man - He destroyed my place

Dead giveaway. No.

Côte d'Ivoire

Texas

East or west?

A great friend of mine at KU was from Ghana. His name is Siaw Yaboah. He went by the nick-name of Kojo, which means "Monday born," in Ghana.

They have several dialects in Ghana and English is/was taught to the privileged. When Kojo came to KU he had to relearn English because he couldn't understand a word we said (and vice versa). He caught on really fast and busted all players in chess. He's now a successful engineer in California. Rock on Kojo!

Laos. But it's not really obscure because there is a large Laos population here in Northern California.

At one of my jobs there was a guy from Ghana and a guy from Somalia. The guy from Somalia was probably the most bigoted person I've ever met toward the guy from Ghana. He would call him "ditch digger" and "monkey" right to his face.
And the guy from Ghana would just sort of smile about it and never got mad.

Actually quite a bit. I play soccer with quite a diverse and rotating crowd of foreigners.

I wouldn't think that a typical Somalian guy has a lot to be arrogant about.

Estonia...and she's gorgeous!!! I should've locked her in my basement!

Malta

No, nor would I. They both washed cars so, you know. But for whatever reason the Somalians held themselves up as superior.

The most polite people are from Ethiopia. They're smart and optimistic to a fault.

I thought half this board was from Bigdorkistan...

A good rule of thumb is that if they border the Baltic, you want to see them naked.

I messed around years ago with a chick from Jordan.

She was a regular American girl, came here when she was young. But she liked to remind me that her dad was hardcore Muslim and if he caught us ****ing that he would disown her/kill her/kill me etc.

^

Once had a family of patients from Micronesia.

Ummmm.....I did....for about 4 months. :drool:

She took a promotion and moved to Latvia and recently took another promotion to Moscow.

If I was the p.r. person for that country, I would recommend a name change to Macronesia. Micronesia makes them sound insignificant.

I know a guy from Morocco if that counts.

A country is included in the table if it exceeded 50,000 in either category.

<table class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter"> <thead><tr> <th title="Sort ascending" role="columnheader button" tabindex="0" class="headerSort">Country of birth</th> <th title="Sort ascending" role="columnheader button" tabindex="0" class="headerSort">Population (2000)</th> <th title="Sort ascending" role="columnheader button" tabindex="0" class="headerSort headerSortUp">Immigrants (1986-2012)</th> </tr></thead><tbody> <tr> <td>Total foreign born</td> <td>40,381,574</td> <td>26,147,963</td> </tr><tr> <td> Mexico</td> <td>11,691,632</td> <td>5,551,757</td> </tr><tr> <td> Philippines</td> <td>1,814,875</td> <td>1,480,946</td> </tr><tr> <td> China</td> <td>1,651,511</td> <td>1,399,667</td> </tr><tr> <td> India</td> <td>1,855,705</td> <td>1,323,011</td> </tr><tr> <td> Vietnam</td> <td>1,253,910</td> <td>955,967</td> </tr><tr> <td> Dominican Republic</td> <td>878,858</td> <td>904,721</td> </tr><tr> <td> El Salvador</td> <td>1,245,458</td> <td>676,776</td> </tr><tr> <td> Cuba</td> <td>1,090,563</td> <td>666,657</td> </tr><tr> <td> Korea</td> <td>1,095,084</td> <td>609,321</td> </tr><tr> <td> Haiti</td> <td>602,733</td> <td>536,657</td> </tr><tr> <td> Jamaica</td> <td>694,600</td> <td>507,741</td> </tr><tr> <td> Colombia</td> <td>655,096</td> <td>498,551</td> </tr><tr> <td> Russia</td> <td>398,086</td> <td>476,306</td> </tr><tr> <td> Canada</td> <td>787,542</td> <td>394,790</td> </tr><tr> <td> United Kingdom</td> <td>356,558</td> <td>383,037</td> </tr><tr> <td> Poland</td> <td>452,224</td> <td>360,669</td> </tr><tr> <td> Iran</td> <td>357,189</td> <td>358,586</td> </tr><tr> <td> Guatemala</td> <td>844,332</td> <td>353,122</td> </tr><tr> <td> Pakistan</td> <td>307,855</td> <td>347,237</td> </tr><tr> <td> Peru</td> <td>406,008</td> <td>320,611</td> </tr><tr> <td> Ukraine</td> <td>342,153</td> <td>306,203</td> </tr><tr> <td> Taiwan</td> <td>368,024</td> <td>269,873</td> </tr><tr> <td> Ecuador</td> <td>429,316</td> <td>243,217</td> </tr><tr> <td> Nigeria</td> <td>228,953</td> <td>227,497</td> </tr><tr> <td> Bangladesh</td> <td>185,275</td> <td>215,164</td> </tr><tr> <td> Guyana</td> <td>255463</td> <td>214,995</td> </tr><tr> <td> Brazil</td> <td>334,121</td> <td>214,266</td> </tr><tr> <td> Ethiopia</td> <td>163,407</td> <td>202,518</td> </tr><tr> <td> Germany</td> <td>618,227</td> <td>192,676</td> </tr><tr> <td> Nicaragua</td> <td>249,037</td> <td>191,701</td> </tr><tr> <td> Honduras</td> <td>499,987</td> <td>178,321</td> </tr><tr> <td> Thailand</td> <td>243,250</td> <td>174,168</td> </tr><tr> <td> Japan</td> <td>314,042</td> <td>172,893</td> </tr><tr> <td> Trinidad and Tobago</td> <td>226,074</td> <td>157,689</td> </tr><tr> <td> Hong Kong</td> <td>219,872</td> <td>156,676</td> </tr><tr> <td> Iraq</td> <td>164,869</td> <td>153,897</td> </tr><tr> <td> Egypt</td> <td>156,149</td> <td>153,755</td> </tr><tr> <td>Venezuela</td> <td>198,468</td> <td>143,411</td> </tr><tr> <td> Romania</td> <td>171,269</td> <td>140,887</td> </tr><tr> <td> Ghana</td> <td>135,822</td> <td>130,542</td> </tr><tr> <td> Bosnia and Herzegovina</td> <td>120,077</td> <td>129,481</td> </tr><tr> <td> Lebanon</td> <td>114,720</td> <td>113,727</td> </tr><tr> <td> Laos</td> <td>178,824</td> <td>110,235</td> </tr><tr> <td> Israel</td> <td>134,680</td> <td>106,568</td> </tr><tr> <td> Cambodia</td> <td>157,490</td> <td>106,183</td> </tr><tr> <td> Republic of Ireland</td> <td>130,351</td> <td>104,586</td> </tr><tr> <td> Jordan</td> <td>69,283</td> <td>104,168</td> </tr><tr> <td> Argentina</td> <td>165,029</td> <td>98,999</td> </tr><tr> <td> Somalia</td> <td>89,474</td> <td>94,978</td> </tr><tr> <td> Burma</td> <td>89,289</td> <td>94,792</td> </tr><tr> <td> Kenya</td> <td>102,235</td> <td>92,891</td> </tr><tr> <td> Serbia and Montenegro</td> <td>103,170</td> <td>88,688</td> </tr><tr> <td> France</td> <td>163,000</td> <td>87,601</td> </tr><tr> <td> Turkey</td> <td>96,970</td> <td>85,415</td> </tr><tr> <td> Albania</td> <td>76,870</td> <td>84,031</td> </tr><tr> <td> Morocco</td> <td>62,761</td> <td>76,622</td> </tr><tr> <td> Liberia</td> <td>71,943</td> <td>74,632</td> </tr><tr> <td> South Africa</td> <td>92,571</td> <td>69,992</td> </tr><tr> <td> Italy</td> <td>368,789</td> <td>69,111</td> </tr><tr> <td> Syria</td> <td>69,400</td> <td>68,864</td> </tr><tr> <td> Bulgaria</td> <td>65,699</td> <td>68,768</td> </tr><tr> <td>Uzbekistan</td> <td>56,503</td> <td>68,654</td> </tr><tr> <td>Armenia</td> <td>84,138</td> <td>62,201</td> </tr><tr> <td> Indonesia</td> <td>98,600</td> <td>61,493</td> </tr><tr> <td> Afghanistan</td> <td>63,291</td> <td>59,480</td> </tr><tr> <td> Nepal</td> <td>79,996</td> <td>58,841</td> </tr><tr> <td> Belarus</td> <td>59,522</td> <td>58,254</td> </tr><tr> <td> Panama</td> <td>101,889</td> <td>57,628</td> </tr><tr> <td> Austria</td> <td>49,565</td> <td>56,283</td> </tr><tr> <td> Chile</td> <td>99,430</td> <td>54,573</td> </tr><tr> <td> Portugal</td> <td>158,911</td> <td>53,831</td> </tr><tr> <td> Bolivia</td> <td>81,143</td> <td>52,177</td> </tr><tr> <td> Sweden</td> <td>48,704</td> <td>51,840</td> </tr><tr> <td> Sri Lanka</td> <td>48,411</td> <td>51,675</td> </tr><tr> <td> Costa Rica</td> <td>76,193</td> <td>47,648</td> </tr><tr> <td> Spain</td> <td>93,578</td> <td>41,328</td> </tr><tr> <td> Greece</td> <td>133,917</td> <td>37,406</td> </tr><tr> <td> Netherlands</td> <td>77,522</td> <td>35,117</td> </tr><tr> <td> Hungary</td> <td>74,985</td> <td>31,365</td> </tr><tr> <td> Czech Republic</td> <td>83,080</td> <td>27,354</td> </tr><tr> <td> Barbados</td> <td>50,285</td> <td>25,444</td> </tr><tr> <td> Austria</td> <td>64,775</td> <td>12,926</td> </tr><tr> <td> United States</td> <td>271,210,345</td> <td>3,132</td> </tr><tr> <td> Malaysia</td> <td>58,663</td> <td>n/a</td> </tr><tr> <td> Saudi Arabia</td> <td>58,022</td> <td>n/a</td> </tr></tbody><tfoot></tfoot></table> Note: Counts of immigrants since 1986 for Russia includes "Soviet Union (former)", for Czech Republic includes "Czechoslovakia (former)", and for "Serbia and Montenegro" includes Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo for the most recent years. Serbia and Montenegro defined as "Yugoslavia" in Census 2000 foreign-born statistics. Sudan includes South Sudan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigra..._United_States

ethiopia

Nauru

Belleville, Illinois.
If you have ever been there you know what I am talking about.

My wife is from Morocco.

are we talking met face to face?
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Heck, they have to have riot police to hold them back in the Baltic area....

I worked with a guy from Liberia

Worked with a guy from Jordan.

I have a lot of Laos friends here in DFW (surprisingly there are a lot of them here).

Guy that works at the convenience store by my house is Nepalese.

I was friends with a bunch of eastern Europeans in college (most were Albanian and Macedonian) and they had an Estonian friend (he was an acquaintance of mine).

There is a shit load of them in DFW too.

I didn't know Jordan was going to be on this list

My Grandfather was on the Supreme Court of Jordan

Also, was friends with a guy from Senegal in college. (he was the biggest cock blocker ever)

Rainmanistan.
The populace just walks around spewing random facts and asking each-other multiple choice questions.

I had a student from Trinidad and Tobago. If you don't know where that is -it is a small group of islands north east of South America

Yeah, but if you met them side to side I would also count that.

Estonia

shit, if I can't count tech support or that ****in donger I guess no one.
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In college, my roommate was from Iran. This was during the height of the Iranian hostage crisis. Boy, did he get shit everywhere he went.

Sad thing was, he was in a Jewish minority over in Iran and recently came to the U.S. to escape persecution over there. Poor guy - he was literally like a man without a country.

I've met someone from Australia and from jamaica. The rest are all in the US.

Do I get double points for answering the poll while actually in Nicaragua?

Only if you meet a Honduran while you're there.

I live in an international city, so I've met and worked with people from Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guyana, South Korea and even met a guy from Kentucky once (and man, was HE weird).

I met a lady at a party 2 weeks ago from Ecuador. Her English was very good and she was very nice.

We had a housekeeper for a few years that was from El Salvador.

She would get pissed off if people had referred to her as Mexican at any point in her life.

I never understood why.

When I bartended at a Crowne Plaza hotel, one my best work pals was from Eritrea, truly one of the most kindhearted, sweetest guys you could ever want to meet.

That place specialized in international staff, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Croatia, Bosnia, Italy, several African nations, those and several others i've forgotten were all represented.

I tried sooo hard to hook up with this girl from Norway, my Lord she was just incredible, straight from a postcard... tall, platinum blond... mercy.

But she was already hooked up with a genuine, all American asshole and couldn't be pried loose.

Bigdorkistan. LMAO

Damn you. I figured I was going to be the Eritrea contingent.
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LMAO sorry.

On another point, 99% of everyone i've ever met from anywhere in Africa has been one of the nicest, most smiling people you could ever meet.

In college I knew twins from Moldova.

Laos and Sudan.

Sweet, did that earlier this week, while traveling with a Costa Rican, Canadian, and a Brit!

This guy was nice as can be, but had been in the military since ten, iirc, and once we ran in to a couple guys from Ethiopia.


He was ready to kill. Like totally flipped a switch for a minute. Then got control and chilled out.
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Mozambique. Had high school English with a kid from there. I had never heard of it. He was the best soccer player we had.

This would have been my choice, too, if it were a poll option.

Those neighbors have been fighting each other since forever, but good grief, packing an AK at the age of ten, its a whole nother world out there...

That's where that old guy was busted for wearing a prom dress in his car in the high school parking lot. My sister lived in Collinsville, I know exactly what you're talking about.

Yep, had the crazy scars on his face. crazy shit for a ten year old.


But that ****er could break down whatever firearm you put in front of him, and was studying to be a doctor at ku med center.

His dad was a lawyer over there and financed everything.

we would party the **** down
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Probably the same reason I get pissed if some moron sees me wearing a Chiefs hat and asks me if I'm from ****ing Kansas. :grr:

You aren't?

: ducks
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I once worked with a girl who was originally from Trinidad and Tobago. She was smokin hot too. Had that exotic look about her.

:cuss:

I've got a great story along those lines but I'll share it when I'm not typing with my thumbs on an iPhone.

That's one badass doctor, i wouldn't want to disagree with his diagnosis.

East German after the wall fell. Turkey. Chad. Hungry. Pakistan. Maybe a few more I don't remember.

We had a nanny from Kazakhstan back in 2010 (I think I've shared this story before).

And yes, she sang the "Bing Bong" song to my 2 year old daughter exactly same as Borat sang it.

LMAO

Had a step father from Jordan.
Uncle from Suriname (South America)

What is the most obscure country from which you've met a person?
 

Have coached football players from Armenia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and Romania.

Oh and him and his friends had awesome shit.

Leather couches, nice electronics...

I would just get random calls for a couple years from him after he graduated.

When any of them left they just left. Took nothing. He would have them bring me the keys and I would clean their houses out. Everything in then was mine plus whatever deposit they got back if any.

Sweet gig for a guy just out of high school
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Wow, it must be nice to be so cavalier with expensive things.

that stuff meant absolutely nothing to them.
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I've met a people from a lot of different countries, easily more than fourty, but mostly when I've been overseas.

Oddly enough, on my foray into North Korea I didn't meet any North Koreans.

Sri Lanka
Fiji
Albania
Columbia
Liberia
Nepal